Last Updated: December 5, 2022 by Quote.cc Team
Albert Einstein is widely regarded as one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. And just might be the most famous scientist to have ever lived. He is best known to the general public for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc^2, which has been dubbed “the world’s most famous equation.” he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his services to theoretical physics in 1921.
Einstein shared a lot of wisdom and insight on Education, Love, Life, Imagination, and the world in general. Here are 150 of Albert Einstein’s most insightful quotes.
150 Albert Einstein Quotes and Sayings
Top 10 Albert Einstein Quotes
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
“I’d rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.” – Albert Einstein
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.” – Albert Einstein
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” – Albert Einstein
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” – Albert Einstein
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” – Albert Einstein
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” – Albert Einstein
Famous Albert Einstein Quotes
“Never memorize something that you can look up.” – Albert Einstein
“The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it” – Albert Einstein
“Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.” – Albert Einstein
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.” – Albert Einstein
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.” – Albert Einstein
“As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.” – Albert Einstein
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” – Albert Einstein
“Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.” – Albert Einstein
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.” – Albert Einstein
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.” – Albert Einstein
“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.” – Albert Einstein
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” – Albert Einstein
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” – Albert Einstein
“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.” – Albert Einstein
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” – Albert Einstein
“Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.” – Albert Einstein
“Truth is what stands the test of experience.” – Albert Einstein
“I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.” – Albert Einstein
“A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.” – Albert Einstein
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
“In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.” – Albert Einstein
“The faster you go, the shorter you are.” – Albert Einstein
“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.” – Albert Einstein
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.” – Albert Einstein
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” – Albert Einstein
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.” – Albert Einstein
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” – Albert Einstein
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.” – Albert Einstein
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.” – Albert Einstein
Inspirational Albert Einstein Quotes
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.” – Albert Einstein
“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.” – Albert Einstein
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” – Albert Einstein
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” – Albert Einstein
“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.” – Albert Einstein
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.” – Albert Einstein
“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” – Albert Einstein
“It is only to the individual that a soul is given.” – Albert Einstein
“The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion, and final emergence into light—only those who have experienced it can understand that.” – Albert Einstein
Funny Albert Einstein Quotes
“When the solution is simple, God is answering.” – Albert Einstein
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” – Albert Einstein
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.” – Albert Einstein
“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.” – Albert Einstein
“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” – Albert Einstein
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” – Albert Einstein
“The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.” – Albert Einstein
“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.” – Albert Einstein
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” – Albert Einstein
“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” – Albert Einstein
“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.” – Albert Einstein
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.” – Albert Einstein
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” – Albert Einstein
“The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.” – Albert Einstein
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.” – Albert Einstein
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” – Albert Einstein
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” – Albert Einstein
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.” – Albert Einstein
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?” – Albert Einstein
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Time
“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” – Albert Einstein
“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” – Albert Einstein
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein
“Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.” – Albert Einstein
“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.” – Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Education
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – Albert Einstein
“It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere… Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” – Albert Einstein
“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry” – Albert Einstein
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein
“The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.” – Albert Einstein
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” – Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Love
“I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein
“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.” – Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About War
“I would teach peace rather than war. I would inculcate love rather than hate.” – Albert Einstein
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein
“Force always attracts men of low morality.” – Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Imagination
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.” – Albert Einstein
“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.” – Albert Einstein
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” – Albert Einstein
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
“Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation…” – Albert Einstein
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking” – Albert Einstein
“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” – Albert Einstein
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.” – Albert Einstein
“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.” – Albert Einstein
“I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am.” – Albert Einstein
“I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.” – Albert Einstein
“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” – Albert Einstein
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein
“A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.” – Albert Einstein
“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.” – Albert Einstein
“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” – Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.” – Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Life
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” – Albert Einstein
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein
“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” – Albert Einstein
“Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien.” – Albert Einstein
“From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other – above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.” – Albert Einstein
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.” – Albert Einstein
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” – Albert Einstein
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
“The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. – Albert Einstein” – Albert Einstein
“Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men – above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.” – Albert Einstein
“Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life” – Albert Einstein
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.” – Albert Einstein
“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.” – Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Learning
“Once you stop learning, you start dying.” – Albert Einstein
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” – Albert Einstein
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” – Albert Einstein
“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” – Albert Einstein
“The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” – Albert Einstein
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
“Information is not knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes About Science
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” – Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein
“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.” – Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” – Albert Einstein
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” – Albert Einstein
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.” – Albert Einstein
“Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.” – Albert Einstein
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” – Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quotes Technology
“The human spirit must prevail over technology.” – Albert Einstein
“Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.” – Albert Einstein
“I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings.” – Albert Einstein
“Invention is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.” – Albert Einstein